Staff Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Redesign the fundamental Teleport product to achieve global scalability and enhance routing latency.

• Revise sections of the core Teleport product to facilitate cloud functionality.

• Create monitoring and observability systems to detect production issues and reduce false alarms.

• Automate and remove high-effort tasks.

• Manage operational responsibilities including patching, scaling, backup and restore, and disaster recovery.

• Investigate customer outages and incidents.

• Participate in the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7/365 system availability.

• Collaborate with Teleport engineers on production infrastructure and Software as a Service (SaaS) frameworks.

• Complete a take-home Go coding assignment using GitHub as a part of the recruitment process.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of advancing experience in Software Engineering and/or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)/DevOps positions.

• Strong expertise in Linux systems, networking, containers, and troubleshooting.

• Solid experience in Go programming and production-level Kubernetes development.

• Proven track record in technical leadership.

• Significant experience in developing scripts, automation, contributing patches to the product codebase, or creating tools that integrate AI agents into operational workflows.

• Preferred experience with AWS Cloud; acceptable experience with GCP.

• Familiarity with systems observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.

• Experience in operating and supporting observability platforms.

• Background in environments where security decisions are critical and understanding correctness and system invariants is crucial.

• Openness to collaboratively undertake a coding challenge in Go during the interview process.

• Intellectual curiosity and eagerness to learn new technologies.

• Strong communication skills.

• Capability to pass background checks.

• Availability to travel to the San Francisco Bay Area office for onboarding week.

• Considerations for employment authorization in Australia.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage.

• Annual expense budget.

• Rest and recovery policies designed to optimize your ability to recharge.

• Investment in your future through retirement savings plans.

• Opportunities for professional development.